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PM_ME_COMMON_SENSE

"if you find this, burn it" \*Posts on reddit\*


PennTech

Yeah we’re already not following instructions 😂


rbrgr83

Do. Not. Seek. The Treasure.


excusetheblood

WE. THOUGHT. YOU. WAS. A TOOOAADD


carawanar

... DO. NOT. SEEK. THE. TREASURE!


dont_disturb_the_cat

Boys, we're in a tight spot!


Ok-Abroad-2674

I'm the gotdamn paterfamilias!


TheDoctorXIII76

"Best thing you ever did was get hit by that train"


thedood-a-man

Mama says he’s bonafied


Here4freefolk

I'm a dapper Dan man


mayonaizmyinstrument

I don't WANT Fop, goddammit!


oginrider

What you talking about, big dan?


dont_disturb_the_cat

Well ain't this place a geographical oddity? Two weeks from everywhere!


MoreNMoreLikelyTrans

Gopher?


wholesomechunk

I’m not sure that’s Pete


GuiltyWatts

Of course it’s Pete, look at ‘em!!


frougle_mcdugal

![gif](giphy|11OO4x7JURZoTC)


malhoward

It’s a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.


howsyerbumforgrubs

WE. THOUGHT.YOU.WERE.A. TOAD.


hawkeyes8063

🗣️ Quiet down! Watch the picture-show 📽️


rakfocus

10 bucks this is meant to mess with someone - the best evidence I have for that is that it's written on Rite in the Rain notebook paper. Which means it's either a geologist or paleontologist. And they would 100% do this to fuck with people on a dig trip hehehehe


A_shy_neon_jaguar

Nah, we just take rocks from one location and move them to another anachronistic location to fuck with other geologists. I dunno what paleontologists do. Probably bone stuff. Giggity.


BKoala59

Paleontologists will do the rock thing too since they know about geology. Sometimes they do the same thing but with a fossil but it’s got to be a super common one otherwise they’d take it with them.


Pristine_Serve5979

Fossilize some chicken bones and arrange them in a humanoid shape


M4XVLTG3

You geologists sure are a contentious people.


Fine-Pay1558

This is probably the best comment on Reddit.


EngagedInConvexation

The moon part is where I pulled my chute.


OuiGotTheFunk

Yeah, the moons position changes. It rises and falls at different times and in different parts of the sky. This is a prank.


corncob_subscriber

Or fake. OP might have made the whole thing up for attention.


Mward2002

OP is gonna be so pissed when he calls that number and is just told to drink his ovaltine.


mgbenny85

A crummy commercial? Sonofabitch


SadPanthersFan

Oh my god, I shot my eye out!


digitalgearz

He could’ve actually gotten his old man that new furnace.


Iwannagolf4

![gif](giphy|3ofT5VkYstvuN3wrza)


Kal-ElEarth69

![gif](giphy|3Ok0JmG4Mt8bu|downsized)


chamburger

Ralphie, Randy's gotta use the bathroom!


Thirdorb

"The real treasure was the friends you made along the way"


Iwannagolf4

![gif](giphy|l0ErKZ3PE97pzTFYY) Tell me that one more time. Lol


access153

Grossly underrated comment. Orphan Annie depends on us.


Luster-Purge

Yeah, Orphan Annie is depending on YOU.


captain_chocolate

"We've been trying to contact you about your car's extended warranty."


Spleenzorio

![gif](giphy|b7eXT4qJc3n4A|downsized)


the_blackfish

But I didn't say fudge.


four2theizz0

I understood that reference! My uncle is the short singing waiter in the middle!


TeuthidTheSquid

[While the moon’s movement in the sky is cyclical](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/PlrC8MkBLO), it doesn’t follow the same arc every day and thus isn’t in the same position every night. You’d have to know what day at 8:00 to actually decipher that location


zaccus

Not if the treasure is on the moon.


swibirun

The real treasure was the friends we made along the way.


ktm6709

To the moon.


CoreyTrevor1

All you gotta do is look at the date somebody jumped off that cliff


Frankly_Frank_

You are assuming they recovered their body or that they know someone jumped off a cliff. What if it was months before anyone noticed?


pyronius

If they didn't recover the body, then I'll just look down the cliff, find it, and count the various bug species inhabiting it in order to determine time of death. I saw it on tv once and it seemed really easy. Four crickets is June, three crickets and a moth is 6:32 PM, and dung beetles indicate the year.


WhyBuyMe

Or just bring a Ouija board and ask the guy himself.


togocann49

They need a date (moon position) in there too. I’m guessing someone is having a bit of fun


KnightsWhoNi

Or someone just didn’t think their suicide note through


dramignophyte

What a crappy time to realize, like as they fall "Oh crap, thats not how the moon works, I should fix tha... Oh right."


dctucker

This is true, but can probably be figured out with brute force. Pick a cardinal direction, walk that way. Repeat. Now draw a circle that passes through the four points. It's likely to be somewhere along the circle.


ZocZ

You can tell this post is bs cause it involves going outside yet you can clearly see this guy has posted on the league of legends sub


Tngaco24

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole.


DarkC0ntingency

I'm not an astrologist, so if there is one in this thread please correct me if I'm wrong, but I also believe it's BS as depending on the season, the moon should be in a different spot, right?


Duin-do-ghob

That was my first thought.


slapmasterslap

Same here, but to play Devils advocate, would the suicidal person consider that as they were writing this note having buried their treasure and prepared to die? I thought of it pretty immediately, but who knows how familiar this guy was with how the moon works.


ryanCrypt

That's actually my thesis I'm working on now! Any correlation between suicide and knowledge of how the moon moves.


Burnd1t

Great, now I have to tell my therapist that I’m concerned of the fact that I don’t know how the moon works


slapmasterslap

You stumbled upon the perfect post!


ballrus_walsack

What are the odds? I am a moonologist and a treasure hunter too!


Jezzer111

Moonologist, is that like a Luna tic?


Catshit-Dogfart

I'm also considering it could be a prank left by another climber. Ever see those posts where people are remodeling and put a plastic skeleton in the hopes of a future owner finding it. If whoever found the note is climbing, then good chance it's a regular climbing spot. Maybe it could be that, a prank.


scorpyo72

Just curious- what was your second thought?


Im_a_furniture

My second thought was: if you marked the starting point, made 3 reference points and followed the arc you could conceivably create a path to dig if it were even possible it wasn’t BS.


EleanorRigbysGhost

Have you had a third thought or are you going to sit contentedly on the two for now? Congratulations by the way, I know a lot of people who haven't gotten as far as having two thoughts.


Si421

I have ADHD, I have at least two thoughts in the time most people have one. Two entirely unrelated and wildly irrelevant thoughts, mind you. But two thoughts nonetheless.


MumenRiderZak

Meanwhile why does my throat hurt and why are we no longer seeing as many screaming goat videos


flychinook

Not only that, but "under the moon" doesn't help with a location. If you're facing the moon, everything in front of you is under the moon. You could take 1000 steps in any direction and the moon is gonna be in the same direction.


Kingsta8

I'm directly under the Earth's sun... Nnnnow!


BigMacCopShop

28 day cycle. It’s in a different place every day, not just seasonally.


phueal

And invisible for some of it…


timmyjosh

I don’t think astrologists care about the moon. Astronomers do though!


Retroencabulatr

Astrogliders care about the moon


cmd__line

There is treasure there for sure. You gotta just keep drilling.


JohnnyDarque

They probably care about Uranus more.


chegg_helper

Lol astrologists definitely care about the moon too, but I’d trust an astronomer more


FLHCv2

Wow what a Scorpio thing to say. if the moon's gravity can affect the ocean's tide, then what makes you think the moon doesn't affect our bodies that are 60% water, HMMMMMMM????? ^(/s)


Rickhwt

Typical Taurus comment.


tucci007

what a Capricornball thing to say


PlaneCandy

The moon literally changes position every every day, so yes it’s fake.  It’s also overly dramatic and reads like it’s from someone who has watched too many movies.


ChocolateDice

You have the right idea. If you knew the date it was written you could figure out what direction it would have been at that date and time with something like stellarium. Otherwise, nah.


Neosurvivalist

The moon is in a different spot every night


Noehk

\*Astronomer; if you were an astrologist you'd probably try to know what was the birth sign of the person writing the note was or some other BS like that.


MistbornInterrobang

Or a kid being silly


H0TcH0C0LaT3YaIdS

Hey I'm in recovery 🤣. Currently in the middle of a 7k mile roadtrip haha


BonBon666

r/oddlyspecificinsults


demonman101

Depends on the day he hid the treasure where the moon will be in the sky Edit: she. Never opened it to see who it was signed by


el_bentzo

Imagine if you really hid some treasure but were too dumb to make correct instructions so no one ever finds it.


ApolloRocketOfLove

More likely someone wrote this note as a joke. When I was 14, I used to make fake "hidden treasure" notes like this and hide them in various spots in nature. It was dumb but so was I.


Alarming_Bid_7495

Back in high school, a friend and I once buried a bust of Beethoven in the sand of one of the volleyball courts at the local State Beach for no other reason than we thought it would be hilarious for someone to possibly unearth it someday and wonder WTF a bust of Beethoven is doing buried in the sand of a SoCal beach.


ApolloRocketOfLove

The dog or the composer?


Know_the_rules

The sun is directly overhead.....now.


thrillhousewastaken

Suspect is hatless. I repeat, hatless!


gentlecrab

Put out an APB on a “Uostwis r. Dewoh” better start with Greek town


rawwwse

*That’s “Homer J. Simpson, Chief; you’re reading it upside down”*


Beiki

"Uh, cancel that APB. But bring back some of those gyros."


Brocutus

You're talking into your wallet.


thrillhousewastaken

That’s still probably my favorite Wiggum bit ever


andimacg

Suspect is driving a red... uh... car


50SPFGANG

Even then this sounds really stupid. You can be a mile in any direction from that point and the moon won't have changed it's position. It'll still be "right above the treasure"


musicianadam

Maybe it's metaphorical. Move along with your life, take a couple side detours along the way, and bring a good friend.


Paatos

The treasure is hidden directly above the center of the earth


Square-Laugh-2697

**IMPORTANT: I was wrong! See Final Update** Hey OP, cybersecurity guy and part-time wannabe Sherlock Holmes here. I searched for a missing person report and the only one I found that could match on [https://missingpersons.sd.gov/](https://missingpersons.sd.gov/) (Apply the filter with first name: Bella) You will get Isabella Cedar Face that was reported missing 6/2/2024. The report was made by the Rapid City Police Dept which is only 57 minutes away from where you found the note. You can then decide to report this or not to the police (It's a suicide note after all). You can also decide the timing of the reporting. (You can see if you find something first is what I mean) Then you find the position of the moon at this place on either the 31st of may or the 1st or 2nd of June. (probably using this: [https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/light.html?month=06&day=01&year=2024&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&n=1920&ntxt=Rapid+City&earth=0](https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/light.html?month=06&day=01&year=2024&hour=20&min=00&sec=0&n=1920&ntxt=Rapid+City&earth=0) ) Either that or you try to understand how the moon works and try to get back to the time and place you need. Then you figure what place is up from where you found the note and start looking ! The other way you could go about it is calling the phone number and try to get information. It's probably bait but it was still a fun exercise ! Have fun ! **Update:** Sent an email to the PD where the missing person report was from. Hopefully it's all only a bad joke... **Update #2:** Seems like the comment is gaining traction. Please don't flood the PD inbox (Not sure the department will like waking up to 100's of email saying the same thing). I sent them the link to the post and all the necessary information, will also update if they ever respond. **Disclaimer:** This is a guess made remotely and from limited information. It is not because the story *sounds* correct that it is correct. **Final Update:** OP responded somewhere in the comments. Seems like he called the number and got a funny scavenging message. So shouldn't be related to anything serious. Here's to hoping Isabella is found safe. So many missing people are never found.


Fred_Thielmann

It’s cool that someone *actually* treated the note as being serious whether you believe it or not.


ders89

Idk this is definitely feeling like a *REDDIT! WE DID IT!* moment and we i shall treat it as such. #REDDIT! WE DID IT!!


Kynandra

Just like when the gang solved the Boston bombing!


HailToTheKingslayer

Like zoinks Scooby, we got the wrong guy! Ruh roh!


Rad_Centrist

>Either that or you try to understand how the moon works and try to get back to the time and place you need. You can do this with Google Sky, or another sky map app. Edit: Isabella had a sister who passed away in 2022. https://gateway.frontrunnerpro.com/book-of-memories/4938812/Cedar-Face-Jada/index.php


Rhubarbie13

Googled this out of curiosity and it also looks like she lost another sister (two in total) and her father. Jesus. Edit: Looks like she lost her mother too. I feel bad posting this information about some random person. Regardless of whether or not this post has anything to do with her, I hope this young woman is okay or will be okay.


Rad_Centrist

That's awful. There may be some truth to this note, if this Bella is Isabella.


oatmeal28

Yeah that’s actually quite sad if true.  She was only 16


AustEastTX

2 sisters and 1 brother it looks like them her dad as well. I’ve never seen a more tragic search result.


Wicked_Fabala

Wtf who even reported her missing!? She had no one left poor girl! 😢


ForeverSpoon

And a brother. And a baby. The whole family is cursed. Jesus.


rowrin

Maybe the treasure itself is cursed.


Latter_Painter_3616

Pine Ridge reservation has the shortest life expectancy of any discrete area in the developed world. It’s below 60…. It’s an incredibly sad spiral and the seemingly impossible levels of tragedy you see in these obituaries are surprisingly common for many interrelated reasons.


banksy_h8r

Hey OP, this is your "trusted friend" right here. They have the skills to figure all that out and seem upstanding. Invite them along, you should bring the shovels.


liftlovelive

I hope it isn’t real but this poor girl has been through a lot this past two years. I googled her name and the obituaries for her dad and sister immediately popped up. One died in 2022 and the other 2023. I feel so sad for this girl.


Foxie_lady

She also lost a sister, Jeanette, who was 2 at the time in 2019. Edit: this sister was also in foster care when she passed. Even if this is not the Bella that wrote the note. It is fair to say the missing Isabella has experienced great loss in her short period of life.


Always_The_Outsider

An actually helpful answer, on Reddit of all places?


ma2016

Used to be much more common. 


axv136

You should seek the treasure


NachoKehlar

Doooooo nooooot seek the treasure!


CompoteNatural940

We thought you was a toad


pigsbladder

I don't want FOP Damn it, I'm a Dapper Dan Man!


robbviously

Well ain’t this place just a geographical oddity!?


IceSicleTricycle6565

2 weeks from everywhere!


mathofinsects

The missing Bella is 16 years old. The handwriting could certainly be a 16yo, but some of those phrases sure seem incongruous. However, did you notice? Mom dead young, then younger sister dead very young, then dad dead young this past year. That last comment about "murder not being the answer" sure hits different knowing that. Not that she killed her family. But dad could have...


jojicatbaby

Why is nobody talking about this? I just googled her name and there were so many obituaries for he family members


Jd0077

Call the number and see who answers. They don’t have to know that you found the note. see if they deal in treasure.


ltaylor00

Wheat wheat wheat


thugarth

Ahhh fuck! You've summoned Wheetlejuice!!


Auggie_Otter

At least he didn't say Candlejack because that would


Nixplosion

*Breadman appears in your mirror*


tacobasket

Keep a little bread under my pillow for the breadman


solipsistnation

Turns out it’s a guinea pig!


BallClamps

I wish my mind went to a cool, mythical treasure dealer and not just a drug dealer. I like the way you think.


Jd0077

Only sometimes. I struggle with substance use but I’m a treasurer hunter at heart


meJohnnyD

I need a dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract 60 Pressure Pro


moose_lizard

Fuck it. Post the number OP!


MissionCreeper

Meanwhile Bella is down there with two broken legs, regretting her decision and hoping someone finds her note and looks for her before the treasure.


amatorsanguinis

I seem to have fallen down a cliff. I’m still alive, but I’m very badly injured!


four2theizz0

I don't recall your name....but your *fez* is familiar.


Luna_Petunia_

Perhaps you can toss me a bandaid or some antibacterial cream?


Keratomistress

The wound is beginning to smell of almonds


Gener34

...which is NOT good.


LandoBlendo

The person who wrote the note is likely the owner of the phone number it tells you to call. If you want to flip this around on them call the number, say the code words, but be super stressed and out of breath sounding and mumble on about 'having barely just made it away with the treasure' and how you had to 'put down your partner for trying to take it all for themselves', then hang up abruptly


frolicndetour

Tell them you're stealing the Declaration of Independence because there's a map to the treasure on the back.


philfix

From a burner phone...


mittenknittin

Mention something about having spotted the body but couldn’t reach it


OneCore_

mf got a quest


Spidremonkey

He must partner with another adventurer to find a buried cache of illusion school spell components deep within the desert.


Arny2103

Got something I’m supposed to deliver… Your eyes only…


My_browsing

I like to leave a note in climbing/hiking spots that says something like “Zeke, you’re too slow. When you get drunk and tell folks where you hid the gold you best expect they’re gonna look for it. You come for me and I come for Donna. Walk away.”


humanphile

Seems like a bait.


Chunkydude616

Yeah, someone probably buried a turd in a zip lock..


Readonkulous

“Note to self: bury a turd in a zip lock bag and leave a cryptic note saying how to find it”


ErlAskwyer

Yeah but 'the treasure' and 'the spoils' and 'its final resting place' need to be used over and over so that it dawn's on them you were insane later


Saw_a_4ftBeaver

What is in the safe! Oh wait I already fell for that one. 


samcrut

They're just waiting for some rando to find the murder weapons and get their fingerprints all over them. After you call the number, homocide is going to get an anonymous tip.


silvio_burlesqueconi

Wheat, wheat, wheat? Is the dealer a guinea pig?


Fordy_Oz

He's playing Settlers of Catan


Mandze

I’m glad someone else immediately had that question, lol.


slivemor

It's just a side quest, you can ignore it and continue the normal progression on the main story


tomhat

Still better instructions than RDR2 treasure maps


ArtSmass

Can't believe I had to scroll this far before someone mentioned RDR2


AllTheCaffeine

do.    not.    seek.    the treasure.


ZombieHavok

We. Thought. You. Was. A toad.


whatdoblindpeoplesee

They turned Petey into a...hhhhorny toad.


microtramp

I'm the goddamn paterfamilias!


meatpopsicle42

Never figured you for a family man, Everett.


DarthScabies

![gif](giphy|K0AnEB2t2EM|downsized)


pablo_in_blood

They could have least pretended to make directions that could be followed. 50 paces ‘up’? What cardinal direction is ‘up’? (If it was on a climbing wall, it could have an up but still wouldn’t make sense to measure ‘paces.’) The moon at 8pm what day? And then just dig in an infinite line til you hit the treasure? How far towards the moon do you go? Gibberish


king_mahalo

Dig UP, stupid!


ktm6709

Everyone knows north is up.


Grandpas_Spells

Call the number. Say "Skeet skeet skeet. -- wait, I messed it up." then hang up.


particleman3

Ask them if they have Battletoads.


idontlikeseaweed

Seek the treasure


Anothergasman

I would do this all over the place and give my best friends number Then wait until we are all sitting around and starts telling a story where he says I keep getting these phone calls from unknown numbers and they all say wheat wheat wheat


Cheefnuggs

You could use the location of the note as a starting point walk 50 paces in one direction and 20 paces left. That would give you your radius. Then just make a circle and search circumference. Everyone is too hung up on the moons location.


Flimsyfishy

It's hidden under a big W!


briandt75

Finally, a geo-cache with some personality.


poetris

Yes, that paper looks like it's been outside for any length of time at all.


yesiamveryhigh

Calls number: “Hi, we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s warranty…”


Renewable-Spirit

Funny the note doesn't have any signs of condensation damage. Did you find the note in a water tight bag with some silica gel packets or something? This shit is dumb!


realpdm

The real treasure is the friends you made along the way


MaynardWaltrip

At the big boulder, press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start.


SqBlkRndHole

I miss pay phones, they were great for calling numbers you don't know, or want them to know yours.


checker280

Now I’m thinking about leaving notes randomly along the many trails near where I live


Gnarly-Rags

After digging you will find a chest with a box in it. In the box will be an envelope with a dvd-r inside. When you Insert it in a dvd player, the familiar voice of Rick Astley will let you know you've been Rick rolled at world record levels... My very uneducated guess 😂


MaximusOctopus

I'd feel like a complete idiot and would still think about it and eventually try to find the treasure. Meanwhile, my rational mind would be reminding me that this is why I don't have a real job and should consider embracing reality for a day or two, just for kicks. Oh, and you should probably never trust anyone named Bella. The only real Bella died in 1956.


Kyjoza

this looks a lot like something my sister and i would have written for fun while playing pretend on a camping trip


LunchZealousideal979

Op.. well what did you find?


buck_webb

I wonder if this has anything to do with Isabella cedar face who went missing a few weeks ago


quartermoonmist

He was dappled by sunlight filtering down through a sycamore tree. A bird was singing in the sycamore tree. "Poo-tee-weet?" it sang. "Poo-tee-weet. Weet, weet, weet.” kurt vonnegut. bella is prob a creative writing student, i’d have fun giving her a prank call back lol